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So you can really find the truth. for those about to take my life, may god have mercy on your souls, may god bless your souls. and to the macphail family, he said, of course, i did not personally kill your son, father and brother. i am innocent. >> you've been to an execution, you've been to a few before. how, if at all, was this different? >> there was more security than usual at this execution. there was more security than usual in this execution. but otherwise, it went as other executions have gone here. there was tight security, but the prison folks here are professionals and they have don...

Of doubt. >> ben jealous, unequivocally, do you think that state of georgia put an innocent man to death tonight? >> absolutely. i have been looking at this case for 15 years. i reviewed thousands of cases in that period. i have never seen a case like this. i sat with a woman today on cnn who is terrified for her life, just a few months ago, fleed savannah, georgia because a few years ago the man who many say is the actual killer threatened her. a few years ago, he admitted in front of her and many others, that he had actually killed officer macphail. and when she made it clear a few months ag...

Have to be questioning, questioning, you know, how can i support it when the instrument can be so blunt that we can execute somebody even when the former head of the fbi is stuck. when the former warden at this prison said stop. when bob barr, former prosecutor for georgia said stop. and so many others, yet we just push on blindly not knowing, you know, amid so much doubt of whether we are doing the right thing or not. and it is terrifying. all we had to do was just sentence him to life without possibility of parole and the family would know that, you know, that -- one family would know that t...

Davis, who was pronounced dead tonight at 11:08 eastern time in the death chamber at the jackson, georgia facility. defient was the word that was used to describe him. a somber mood, obviously, in the chamber as reported by john lewis from wsb radio in georgia. and talking to his friends and family, a message for them to dig deeper and find the truth about what happened and telling the macphail family that he did not have a gun and he was not responsible for the death of officer macphail. i'm joined now by the president and ceo of the naacp, ben jealous, joining me by phone tonight. ben, defia...

The officer's brother. his name is william. and mark macphail junior [ inaudible ] >> no, mark macphail leaned forward through the whole process, and his uncle, william macphail, setback and neither seemed to move at all. >> they spent the entire time just staring at troy davis. never turned their heads. never did anything but stair ahead. then when it was over, as they were leaning, they hugged somebody and they seemed to smile about it. so for the macphail family, at least, they seemed to get some satisfaction from what happened. >> who was there from the macphail family? >> pardon? >> who w...